Anticipated highlights of this 2011 IEDM include:

• An emerging technologies session with invited speakers from academia and industry discussing recent advances in the area of energy-harvesting materials and devices, and self-powered autonomous systems.
•  A strong focus on circuit-device interactions.
• Manufacturing breakthroughs in memory, logic, non-silicon-based electronics and a unique two-sided solar cell.
•  90-minute Saturday tutorials on emerging topics, driven by the increased emphasis on cross-disciplinary work and technological integration found in today's research and industrial environments.

Tutorials bridge the gap between established textbook-level knowledge and the leading-edge research as presented during the conference.

For those who live to game, a lunch presentation on Interactive Games, is to be given by Masaaki Tsuruta, executive VP of Technology Platform and CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.